16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-25)Here is a description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart, between the law of God and the law of sin. And it is applicable two ways:—1. To the struggles that are in a convinced soul, but yet unregenerate, in the person of whom it is supposed, by some, that Paul speaks. 2. To the struggles that are in a renewed sanctified soul, but yet in a state of imperfection; as other appr…
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